Elizabeth Blount

Elizabeth Blount (1498-January 1540) was a mistress of Henry VIII of England.

Biography
Elizabeth Blount was born in Kinlet, Shropshire, England in 1498, the daughter of the High Sheriff of Shropshire. She had a reputation as a beauty, and she served as a maid-of-honor to Queen Catherine of Aragon, the wife of King Henry VIII of England, from a young age. In 1515, she began an eight-year relationship with King Henry as his mistress, and she bore him an illegitimate son, Henry FitzRoy, who was born in 1519. Shortly after the birth of their son, Blount and Henry ended their relationship, with Henry firing her and passing her over in favor of Mary Boleyn. She married a member of the noble Tailboys family and became a widow in 1530, later marrying Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln in 1533. She would later serve as a lady-in-waiting to Queen Anne of Cleves, Henry's fourth wife, and she died of tuberculosis at her husband's estate in 1540.